As fast as land in the Nile Valley is lost to housing, desert land is being converted for cultivation.
The old brick factory building that is being converted for the school is at 342 Central Avenue, in what was once an area full of factories producing candy and sweets, according to Richard Charles, a commercial broker with CB Richard Ellis who specializes in downtown properties.
"It was a challenge for the community when so many industrial buildings were being converted for office use, but now it's a challenge the other way," said Kenneth T. Rosen, chairman of the Fisher Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics, which is part of the Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley.
In June 1942 he requested that he be assigned to sea duty in the Caribbean; he was sent instead to the shipyard of George Lawley & Sons of Neponset, Massachusetts, where the fishing trawler MV Mist was being converted for military use as a naval yard patrol (YP) vessel.
One thing Birmingham has in abundance is room to grow, its old industrial zones are being converted into headquarters for the businesses of the future.
But today buildings that once housed garment manufacturers and, later, moving and storage operations are being converted into spaces for artists' and photographers' studios and the galleries that exhibit their work.
The CN rail tracks are being converted to allow for the storage of more subway trains as the T-1 series trains are being shifted from Yonge University to Bloor Danforth.
Degraded pastures in Brazil are being converted to increase their productivity for cattle raising, thus freeing land that is currently under-utilised for cultivation.
They live in spacious lofts west of the Cuyahoga River, where old warehouses are being converted into alternative-living spaces for artists, and it's not hard to catch a farmer's market or drink a locally brewed IPA a little dollop of Brooklyn's gentrified renaissance sandwiched between the city and the suburbs.
Old commercial buildings that have been vacant or underused for decades are being converted into upscale condominiums like those at Strada 234, where apartments sell for up to $1.6 million.
